...listened inspired while Emerson announced the time " when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed...to the learning of other lands, draws to a close." But a year later the theological part of the Cambridge mind recoiled in something like horror from...

...its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertion of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long...The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of frozen harvests. Who can doubt that poetry will revive...

...Cambridge, August 31, 1837. This was a trumpet-call to young America. Its note is struck at the opening : Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise that must be sung,...

...far-spreading landscape and vistas, or the sea rolling in.) " Cf. also Emerson's "The American Scholar": "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions, arise, that must be...

...vistas, or the sea rolling in.) " Cf. also Emerson's "The American Scholar": "Our day of dependeace, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands,...The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions, arise, that must be...

...Geistesmenschen erwartet Amerika die dringend nötigen neuen, originalen Werke. Denn, fährt EMERSON fort, "our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests". Die Pflicht dieses amerikanischen Gelehrten...

...come when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed...The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung,...

...come, when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed...The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung,...

...our long 1 An oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837. 70 apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws...The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung,...

...Harvard. In this, which Holmes calls " our intellectual Declaration of Independence," Emerson says : " Our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands draws to a close. . . . We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds....